Rusty Baker
@rusty-baker.bsky.social
Museums, music, literature, DIY, motorcycles, kayaks and history are what I like to talk about. I'm like a Renaissance Man for the Stone Age.
Did you ever think you'd say "Those rat bastards!" so many times in 6 months?
July 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Did you ever think you'd say "Those rat bastards!" so many times in 6 months?
I have an idea about what to throw if you are in a confrontation on street in a United States city and there are marines in front of you. It's not rocks.
June 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I have an idea about what to throw if you are in a confrontation on street in a United States city and there are marines in front of you. It's not rocks.
I've probably said this before, but Frank Ocean's Blonde is fantastic. Just an amazing accomplishment if you give it the time to show itself to you.
June 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I've probably said this before, but Frank Ocean's Blonde is fantastic. Just an amazing accomplishment if you give it the time to show itself to you.
The simulation has been pretty glitchy today, am I right?
June 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The simulation has been pretty glitchy today, am I right?
Our PA Senators' debating in Boston sure is going to show Massachusetts what's what.
June 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our PA Senators' debating in Boston sure is going to show Massachusetts what's what.
Very good coverage here of the funding priority messaging. www.npr.org/2025/05/03/n...
Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
Hours after the Trump administration proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts from next year's federal budget, hundreds of arts groups in the U.S. were told their grants were canceled.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Very good coverage here of the funding priority messaging. www.npr.org/2025/05/03/n...
I would also be so inclined. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Judge 'inclined' to block DOGE takeover of Institute of Museum and Library Services
A lawsuit filed by the American Library Association says the Trump administration is trying to dismantle the independent agency.
www.wusa9.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I would also be so inclined. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Some good news today. www.mellon.org/news/america...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Some good news today. www.mellon.org/news/america...
Hawley Smoot vibes today.
April 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hawley Smoot vibes today.
I should probably have as many followers as that great chef reactions guy. But if you see this, you should probably follow both of us. Because let's be honest, you can't just put cheese on shit without any sense of balance.
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I should probably have as many followers as that great chef reactions guy. But if you see this, you should probably follow both of us. Because let's be honest, you can't just put cheese on shit without any sense of balance.
Whenever someone tells me they are a huge fan of something, my first impulse is to tell them they aren't huge.
April 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Whenever someone tells me they are a huge fan of something, my first impulse is to tell them they aren't huge.
Never knew this bit of history, did you?
Was Signalgate worse than the Zimmerman Telegram?
Remember Signalgate? Over at The Atlantic, historian Timothy Ryback writes, "Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is…
Remember Signalgate? Over at The Atlantic, historian Timothy Ryback writes, "Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is…
Was Signalgate worse than the Zimmerman Telegram?
Remember Signalgate? Over at The Atlantic, historian Timothy Ryback writes, "Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you because of a Western Union telegram is worse." Here is a taste of his piece: The most colossally stupid and historically consequential mismanagement of classified war plans in an electronic transmission belongs to Arthur Zimmermann, the German foreign minister who dispatched an encrypted telegram to Mexico, via Western Union, offering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico as a war trophy if Mexico would side with Germany in the First World War.
thewayofimprovement.blog
April 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Never knew this bit of history, did you?
Absolute shit show. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
Agency funding libraries and museums puts all employees on leave ahead of major cuts
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is one of seven agencies President Donald Trump is looking to cut "to the maximum extent."
federalnewsnetwork.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Absolute shit show. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...
What is this sorcery from Lancaster County, PA tonight in a special election for a vacant PA Senate seat?
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
What is this sorcery from Lancaster County, PA tonight in a special election for a vacant PA Senate seat?
Leadership of this agency has typically followed a pattern, and this deviates from that pattern. I have ten hours to develop an opinion of it. www.imls.gov/news/keith-e...
Keith E. Sonderling Sworn In as Acting Director of Institute of Museum and Library Services
WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling was sworn in as Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today, after being appointed to the role by President ...
www.imls.gov
March 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Leadership of this agency has typically followed a pattern, and this deviates from that pattern. I have ten hours to develop an opinion of it. www.imls.gov/news/keith-e...
Museum-side, there have been 11,000 people who have sent members of Congress messages about cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). That's 22 per member of Congress. Do better.
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Museum-side, there have been 11,000 people who have sent members of Congress messages about cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). That's 22 per member of Congress. Do better.
Pissing off librarians is always a bad idea. Trust me.
March 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Pissing off librarians is always a bad idea. Trust me.
Noah Kahan told us about the season of the sticks, and here in my neighborhood, the Lower Allen Township Leaf Blower Cult is out in full force celebrating the equinox already.
March 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Noah Kahan told us about the season of the sticks, and here in my neighborhood, the Lower Allen Township Leaf Blower Cult is out in full force celebrating the equinox already.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services made the list of agencies the new administration named on Friday to be slashed so it's going to be a busy week. Maybe one of you can go archive the website?
March 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Institute of Museum and Library Services made the list of agencies the new administration named on Friday to be slashed so it's going to be a busy week. Maybe one of you can go archive the website?
When 1938 shows up in a painting's timeline, you stop and read it. www.krone.at/3724087?fbcl...
Klimt find from Austria causes a sensation
It had been considered lost since 1938. Now Gustav Klimt's portrait of a prince from Ghana is on public display again for the first time. Viennese ...
www.krone.at
March 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
When 1938 shows up in a painting's timeline, you stop and read it. www.krone.at/3724087?fbcl...
So there I was trying to find a work around like a good Gen X guy. Googling the shit out of stuff and figuring it out like I do for my healthcare. And fuck if I didn't find out that ducks get avian flu too.
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So there I was trying to find a work around like a good Gen X guy. Googling the shit out of stuff and figuring it out like I do for my healthcare. And fuck if I didn't find out that ducks get avian flu too.
There was a March day when all the stock prices were down except chocolate, snacks, Netflix and weed stocks back in 2020. True fact.
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
There was a March day when all the stock prices were down except chocolate, snacks, Netflix and weed stocks back in 2020. True fact.
PA Museums is looking for conference session proposals for our late September conference in Erie, PA. Read about it in our news bulletin. conta.cc/4hOeiPL
February 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
PA Museums is looking for conference session proposals for our late September conference in Erie, PA. Read about it in our news bulletin. conta.cc/4hOeiPL